it comes from another massachusetts scholar penny adams and from the wonderful education. adams said basically was that when lincoln and the others got to washington in 1886 in the war began, no one knew what to do. they knew what the task was to be or when was headed for him. everyone without exception was to learn his business at the cost of the public. indianindeed, stewart and the os could be of no help to the young man seeking education. their education was to cost a million lives, not quite a million but close enough and $10 million more or less north and south before the country could recover its ballot and movement. the history of that tragic war and the deaths it caused was recounted in brilliant form by our current speaker as with great pleasure i invite the president of harvard university, doctor faust to join us. [applause] >> thank you so much for that very generous introduction, professor weinstein and all of you for being here tonight. it's a great pleasure and honor for me to talk for the first time its publication yesterday about this book, because so much